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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 48
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The Lord reveals his purposes to Israel—They have been chosen in the furnace of affliction and are to go forth from Babylon—Compare <a href="1_ne/20">1 Nephi 20</a>.
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Hear</span> ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/1a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Ne. 20: 1; TG Baptism.">waters</a> of Judah, which <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Swearing.">swear</a> by the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and make <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/48/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 29: 13.">mention</a> of the God of Israel, <i>but</i> not in truth, nor in righteousness.
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For they call themselves of the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">holy</a> city, and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE pretend to rely upon.">stay</a> themselves upon the God of Israel; The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts <i>is</i> his name.
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I have <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of.">declared</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Foreknowledge of.">former</a> things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did <i>them</i> suddenly, and they came to pass.
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Because I knew that <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Israel.">thou</a> <i>art</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">obstinate</a>, and thy <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/48/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Stiffneckedness.">neck</a> <i>is</i> an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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I have even from the beginning declared <i>it</i> to thee; before it came to pass I shewed <i>it</i> thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
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Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare <i>it?</i>  I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
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They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
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Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time <i>that</i> thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 58: 3.">womb</a>.
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&#182; For my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 7: 9.">name</a>’s sake will I defer mine <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a>, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 22: 18 (18-22).">furnace</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Affliction.">affliction</a>.
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For mine own <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 115: 1; Isa. 43: 25; Ezek. 20: 9.">sake</a>, <i>even</i> for mine own sake, will I do <i>it:</i> for how should <i>my</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Swearing."><i>name</i></a> be polluted?  and I will not <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/48/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Matt. 21: 43.">give</a> my glory unto another.
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&#182; Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I <i>am</i> he; I <i>am</i> the first, I also <i>am</i> the last.
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Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Creation.">earth</a>, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: <i>when</i> I call unto them, they stand up together.
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All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these <i>things?</i>  The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath loved him: he will do his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Cyrus will do his desire, or wish.">pleasure</a> on <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 1: 16; D&C 64: 24.">Babylon</a>, and his arm <i>shall be on</i> the Chaldeans.
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I, <i>even </i>I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
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&#182; Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 19; 2 Ne. 26: 23 (23-28).">secret</a> from the beginning; from the time that it was, there <i>am</i> I: and now the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, and his Spirit, hath <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Authority.">sent</a> me.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Leadership.">leadeth</a> thee by the way <i>that</i> thou shouldest go.
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O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!  then had thy <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peace of God.">peace</a> been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
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Thy <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 22: 17 (15-19); 1 Ne. 20: 19 (18-22).">seed</a> also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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&#182; Go ye forth of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 52: 11.">Babylon</a>, flee ye from the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/48/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Chaldeans</a>, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it <i>even</i> to the end of the earth; say ye, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
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And they thirsted not <i>when</i> he led them through the deserts: he caused the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 17: 6; Num. 20: 11.">waters</a> to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
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<i>There is</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/48/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peace; TG Peace of God.">peace</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, unto the wicked.
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